Wuthering Heights

When misanthropic Mr. Lockwood rents a house on the Yorkshire moors, he finds himself drawn into a complex ongoing saga involving his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. It seems that many years ago, Heathcliff—then only a boy who was scorned by others for his gypsy origin—was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw and brought to the family homestead, Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine took a liking to the newcomer; though at first they were onlychildhood chums, Heathcliff and Catherine gradually awakened to the indissoluble link of untamable passion that lies between them—a link which was to be sorely tested when Catherine made the startling decision to marry another man. Considered shocking in its day for its uncompromising portrayal of untrammeled desire, Wuthering Heights is today consideredone of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth century.